Alaskan fisheries won’t test fish for radioactivity (ADN)

Fish caught off the coast of Alaska aren’t at danger of radio activity, according to a story in the Anchorage Daily News. Those waters are a safe distance from dangerous levels of radiation at the Japanese Fukushima reactor complex, according to fishing regulators.

Good news if you were planning on picking up some cod for dinner.

From the Anchorage Daily News:

A portable radiation monitor on emergency deployment to Dutch Harbor by the EPA recorded the highest levels of iodine-131 of any of the 100-plus monitors in the EPA’s RadNet system. Those readings were taken March 19, of 2.42 picocuries per cubic meter of air, and March 20, of 2.8 picocuries. Among 14 samples collected through April 2, no I-131 was detected three times, and there never was more than a tenth the level of the two elevated samples.